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Home Office Workspace Redo…

We had a storm and it took out my home PC. Not sure what happened – lightning, thunder, power blinked, power went out for several hours, power came back on, and everything came back up but my PC. I swapped out the power supply with a spare I had, no luck. I spent a little time trying to figure out what the issue was but I have had the PC for a good while, so I decided now was as good as anytime to replace it.

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VSAN Automated Space Reclamation – Enabling UNMAP/TRIM on VSAN Cluster

Attending some VSAN training this week. Just a quick training tip, if they give you a bunch of pre-req courses prior to a class – don’t worry about completing them – it will all be reviewed – same talk track, same slides, etc. Other than the whole rehashing the pre-req stuff there is some good info. Here is one thing I picked up that I think I may have seen before, but forgot about, and I don’t think it was mentioned in the pre-req material.

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Who deleted that VM…

Got a email from a customer trying to track down information on who deleted a VM from their environment. It wasn’t a critical VM, it was running some app the IT department was using, and they were able to restore it from a backup. Since the VM was running an app they were using they wanted to find out who deleted it so they could understand what the reason for deleting it was.

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vSphere Upgrade Planning…

With the release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 (GA today and ready for download) folks are chomping at the bit to upgrade in order to take advantage of some of the great new features which are available in this release. There is a lot of information out there on how to upgrade vSphere so in this post I wanted to provide an overview of planning an upgrade of a vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) environment.

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SimpliVity Virtual Networking

Configuring virtual networking in a SimpliVity environment is simple and flexible. There are a few requirements for connectivity to support the SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) but beyond that the virtual/physical networking is configured as it would be in any vSphere environment. This post provides an overview of the requirements of the virtual network to support the SimpliVity DVP along with details on different physical connectivity options to support management and virtual machine traffic.

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